Karuri climate

Name: Karuri
Address: KE

Karuri is warmest in February, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 14 °C. April is the wettest month (218 mm) and July the driest (23 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Karuri averages 963 mm of rain and 163 days above 25 °C.

Kenya · population 194,342 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month February 28 °C
Coldest month January 14 °C
Driest month July 23 mm
Wettest month April 218 mm
Least cloud January 48 % cloud
Hottest on record March 34 °C
Coldest on record July 7.9 °C

What to expectKaruri through the year

Karuri has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 26 °C in January to 28 °C in February, a swing of 3.2 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 163 days a year reach 25 °C, 7 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. April averages 218 mm against 23 mm in July — 9.5 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	26.3 °C	29 mm	48 %
February	27.9 °C	25 mm	48 %
March	27.6 °C	70 mm	57 %
April	25.1 °C	218 mm	76 %
May	24.0 °C	137 mm	73 %
June	23.0 °C	36 mm	79 %
July	22.5 °C	23 mm	82 %
August	23.3 °C	28 mm	80 %
September	25.5 °C	28 mm	68 %
October	25.7 °C	132 mm	72 %
November	23.7 °C	179 mm	74 %
December	24.6 °C	58 mm	55 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	26.3 °C	13.7 °C	20.1 °C	31.7 °C	8.0 °C	24	1
February	27.9 °C	14.0 °C	21.0 °C	33.1 °C	9.4 °C	27	2
March	27.6 °C	15.2 °C	21.2 °C	33.6 °C	10.1 °C	28	3
April	25.1 °C	16.4 °C	20.2 °C	31.4 °C	11.9 °C	14	0
May	24.0 °C	15.9 °C	19.6 °C	27.8 °C	9.6 °C	5	0
June	23.0 °C	14.8 °C	18.7 °C	27.7 °C	9.2 °C	2	0
July	22.5 °C	13.8 °C	18.0 °C	29.1 °C	7.9 °C	3	0
August	23.3 °C	14.1 °C	18.4 °C	29.5 °C	8.6 °C	6	0
September	25.5 °C	14.6 °C	19.8 °C	31.2 °C	9.9 °C	18	0
October	25.7 °C	15.7 °C	20.3 °C	32.4 °C	10.8 °C	20	1
November	23.7 °C	15.4 °C	19.2 °C	27.8 °C	11.0 °C	6	0
December	24.6 °C	14.3 °C	19.4 °C	30.6 °C	9.1 °C	11	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	29 mm	6	12 h/day	48 %	70 %	13 km/h
February	25 mm	5	12 h/day	48 %	64 %	14 km/h
March	70 mm	13	12 h/day	57 %	68 %	13 km/h
April	218 mm	25	12 h/day	76 %	80 %	9.6 km/h
May	137 mm	20	12 h/day	73 %	80 %	8.0 km/h
June	36 mm	9	12 h/day	79 %	77 %	7.9 km/h
July	23 mm	7	12 h/day	82 %	74 %	8.2 km/h
August	28 mm	9	12 h/day	80 %	71 %	8.8 km/h
September	28 mm	8	12 h/day	68 %	65 %	9.6 km/h
October	132 mm	17	12 h/day	72 %	70 %	10 km/h
November	179 mm	22	12 h/day	74 %	82 %	10 km/h
December	58 mm	12	12 h/day	55 %	78 %	12 km/h

How Karuri compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Karuri	28 °C	14 °C	963 mm	163
Thika · Kenya	27 °C	13 °C	963 mm	119
Ruiru · Kenya	27 °C	12 °C	648 mm	119
Karuri · Kenya	25 °C	11 °C	691 mm	32
Limuru · Kenya	23 °C	9.0 °C	849 mm	9
Nairobi · Kenya	27 °C	12 °C	656 mm	124
Mwala · Kenya	28 °C	14 °C	631 mm	200

Where Karuri ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Africa in September	40th of 50	90/100
Places with the best weather in Africa in July	42nd of 50	93/100
Places with the best weather in Africa in January	43rd of 50	89/100
Places with the best weather in Africa in August	50th of 50	91/100

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Karuri.

QuestionsCommon questions about Karuri’s climate

When is the best time to visit Karuri?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, April, September sit closest to 20 °C on average, February is the warmest month and July the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Karuri get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 7 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 14 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Karuri?

April, averaging 218 mm over 25 days with rain. The driest month is July with 23 mm. The year as a whole averages 963 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Karuri rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: -0.700°, 37.183° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.